Hi guys, i've just experienced King Crimson for the first time & done a little research, he uses the style of crosspicking alot, so the first thing i did was came here to search for some lessons on crosspicking but noticed there aren't any? what can people tell me about this? where do i start? it looks like a whole new world.

Hey , it's actually a bluegrass technique. Also known as " double down- up " technique which feels like a banjo roll.You can check the guy out McReynolds who developed this technique with his mandolin.Also there's a little lesson for that in gmc by Lian Gerbino : https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/Irish-Picking/He's teaching his right hand technique in the first lesson.

there are also some other lessons that I found on youtube:

hope these are helpful . Fripp also uses some delay and multiple guitar tracks for that freakin sound.You can google for guitar craft , founded by Fripp. He teaches his own technique to his students.Also I remember something like europe guitar circle , which is also formed by students of Robert Fripp. Listen to their 21st century schizoid man cover , I think they were using the same technique at the intro.

Hey there , it's actually a bluegrass technique. Also known as " double down- up " technique which feels like a banjo roll.You can check the guy out McReynolds who developed this technique with his mandolin.Also there's a little lesson for that in gmc by Lian Gerbino : https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/ls/Irish-Picking/He's teaching his right hand technique in the first lesson.

there are also some other lessons that I found on youtube:

hope these are helpful . Fripp also uses some delay and multiple guitar tracks for that freakin sound.You can google for guitar craft , founded by Fripp. He teaches his own technique to his students.Also I remember something like europe guitar circle , which is also formed by students of Robert Fripp. Listen to their 21st century schizoid man cover , I think they were using the same technique at the intro.

Thanks for all that info mate, will make a start on them videos now..

i wonder why it isn't a popular technique on here? or there are no lessons under crosspicking.

Hey guys Frankly speaking, this is the first time I heard about this technique and I had no clue that down down up, would be considered crosspicking, but hey You learn a new thing everyday, right? Out of what I know, these lessons are the only ones around here that resemble this technique:

I always thought cross picking was essentially just alternate picking. But the guys that are 'cross picking' are just switching strings all the time so they're constantly moving across the strings. A bit like if you were to alternate pick arpeggios instead of sweeping them.

That was my understanding of it. It could be totally worng.

That D,D,U pattern.. now that I think of it, I've used that pattern quite a lot when playing full chords in a 12/8 tempo.

I always thought cross picking was essentially just alternate picking. But the guys that are 'cross picking' are just switching strings all the time so they're constantly moving across the strings. A bit like if you were to alternate pick arpeggios instead of sweeping them.

That was my understanding of it. It could be totally worng.

That D,D,U pattern.. now that I think of it, I've used that pattern quite a lot when playing full chords in a 12/8 tempo.

That makes a lot of sense to me too, man I've always enjoyed playing arpeggio shapes like that, but I never came up with a name for it as it looked fairly similar to economic picking, don't you think?